Helsinki MC Exhibition…
Is about to come! Next weekend. WuHuu! Yippee! I will go!

MP Messut 2018 Tulee! Tulethan sinäkin!
motorcycling

BMW 1200GS
Oh jeez, where to begin… This steaming pile of excrement’s undeserved popularity is outweighed only by its actual weight. Follow the crowd, independent thought is over-rated! Pointless 1930s technology brought to the present for absolutely no reason. Terrible suspension. 0/10
KTM 1290
Making well over 600hp this is the official bike of the mid-life crisis. Your wife might even stop sleeping with the mailman when you get one of these babies! Unreliable doesn’t begin to describe it though, the airbox sucks like your mom after 3 glasses of Four Cousins. Terrible suspension. 0/10
KTM 1090
Want a 1290 but too much of a pansy to handle the power? This is for you! Terrible suspension. 0/10
BMW 800GS
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!! Terrible suspension. 0/10
Honda Africa Twin 1000
Like a worse KTM 990. Can you say “under-powered” Making only 95hp, this bike is rendered practically useless. 15 years of waiting for this? Let down of the century! Terrible suspension. 0/10
KTM 990
Like a worse Africa Twin. Ugly as the night, looks like a Matric metalwork project. Fuel consumption rivals that of a Land Cruiser, rendering any trip longer than 15km impossible. Suspension is terrible. 0/10
Honda 250 Rally
Honda has fooled a handful of idiots into thinking this delivery bike is dual sport. It even has them paying over 90k for a bike that should be dropping off Debonairs at your house on Friday evening. Suspension is absolutely terrible. 0/10
Yamaha Super Tenere 1200
You want a 1200GS in blue, but without the free muffins? It costs HOW MUCH? Absolutely terrible suspension. 0/10
Yamaha XT660Z Tenere
This bike weighs almost as much as 1200GS but with one fourteenth of the power. Kymco scooters will flatten you at the traffic lights. Only an absolute idiot would opt for this abortion of a motorcycle. Has a long fuel range, so you’ll be subjected to hours and hours of excruciating seat time. Suspension=terrible. 0/10
Triumph Tiger 800
Haha don’t even kid me. So bad even Triumph itself fled from the country, leaving us stuck with this pathetic mess. It depreciates faster than the Rand during a Zuma speech. And reliability? It’s British in every sense of the word! Avoid at all costs. Suspension is so terrible. 0/10
Kawasaki KLR650
“Hello, this is the 1960s calling, we want our technology back please!” A face only a blind mother could love, this almost out-ugly’s the KTM 990. A reversing Fiat UNO has a higher top speed. Suspension is terrible. 0/10
Suzuki DR650
See KLR650 review but much, much worse. “It’s old so it must be reliable”, haha, yeah right. Carry some extra oil buddy! Terrible suspension. 0/10
KTM 690
You have to be a special brand of stupid to want to cover long distance on a glorified dirt bike. Luckily, there’s this steaming turd for that! You want to pay over a hundred grand for a pimped-up plaasbike? As reliable as an investment opportunity email from a Prince in Nigeria. Suspension? Terrible. 0/10
Huswqawjqwskwarna 701
A KTM 690 in yellow. From the country that invented ABBA comes an equally terrible bike. You’ll be screaming “Mamma Mia!” at the discomfort that comes with riding anything further than 2km. Also, try saying “Husqvarna” without sounding like an orangutan having a stroke. Suspension is terrible. 0/10
(This is a copy from http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/)
Since my XR is is not with me I had to make the last rides of the season 2017 with my KTM. And since I’m a married man nowadays I needed to add the passengers footpegs and go for a 2-up-ride. It’s quite crazy thing to do with this KTM 690 Enduro -but it wasn’t so bad after all!

First we stopped at small pond in the forest. You can’t see it from this picture but it actually has a little bit ice on the surface!
This was in the beginning of november and we already had some snow here and there!

But the nature is still very beautiful and it calms your mind to ride in the middle of Finnish forest.

This is Sjunby Castle and rapids in Siuntio. We visited grocery store hear nearby and bought some sausages to grill them on the Sandfjärden beach in Kopparnäs.

This time of the year there’s no-one else in these places so we really enjoyed our time!

After a couple of hours it was time to ride back home. The darkness comes so early! But we still had some nice places to stop and take pictures!


My wife had 1 very important job while sitting on the backseat of KTM! She had be the rearfender and take all the water-mud-dirt to her back. I think she did quite well!!

And then it was the laundry time!
I had this bike about 3 seasons (more than 2 years) and I simply love it!
During this time I was able to catch few nice pictures of it… Enjoy!

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For season 2018 I will have the same bike but different color…
New brake and clutch levers from ebay are like this:

These are not the cheapest possible because I can adjust the length of the lever:

New Top Box will be Kappa KGR 46. This box has nice design even it is kind of “normal box”. With this box I had some troubles with delivery… I made the order from ebay from Italian company. But when they told it is on the way the tracking was never working!
And finally the box arrived after more than 5 weeks of waiting!

This goes straight to the monokey platform that I already presented in part 1.

I hope there will be enough space for all my stuff!
I got these small boxes awhile ago. I made the order from Estonian motoshop Motokaup. The finnish reseller of SW Motech also has internetshop but this sucks! (R.M. Heino you can do better!!!)
First item:

I never had sidestand extend before, but now I got one. I hope it will help to keep my bike up!
Second item:

This is the ring that you must have if you want to use Bags Connection tank bags. I have one. I also had the ring in my previous bike but it wasn’t the original -it was a little bit modified by me. Bags Connection bags are made by SW Motech.
The Panniers…
In my previous bike I had the BMW original bags but they are quite small (35 litres I think?) so now I was thinking to get bigger ones. These are the bags I got:
Since I don’t have the bike yet I didn’t unpack all from the boxes but I took 1 picture in my carage:

These are 45 litres each. I was very surprised how light they are!! Almost lighter than the plastic BMW-boxes. It will also take some time to be comfortable how these look… The BMW-boxes have some design and shape… These are just boxes!
Then I will also have a new topbox. That I will show you when I have it.
Here is another video about SW Motech Trax adventure boxes installation (This one is in German):
Second package arrived today… all the way from China. I didn’t have too much expectations for this one but it seems that I will install this… I really wanna see how it looks on the bike!
These are the protection Grills for radiator and oil cooler -and these are very cheap ones! The normal price for these is about 140€ and mostly you will find these in black colour only. But this one is something else…

As you can see it’s blue! And I love it. I only wish the installation is easy and it fits there nicely.
My old bike is for sale as you’ve seen from the previous posts. I also ordered the new bike already… I will have it maybe in february 2018.
I’ve been buying some stuff to this new bike already! The first package I got from Italy 2 days ago.
It’s the same aluminium plate for the top box that I had in my previous bike, Givi SRA5119 is the name of the part!

I will add more “bling-bling” here always when I recieve the new package!













